Re: Visionary ideas for SQL file systems

[Marc Perkel]

Michael Raskin wrote:
> Marc Perkel wrote:
> > I'm going to throw this idea out there just to get people thinking. 
> > There's nothing in reality that is like this except maybe some of the 
> > ReiserFS ideas, but I want to take the idea farther. the idea is ......
> >
> > Why not put an SQL filesystem directly on a block devices where files 
> > are really blobs within the filesystem and file names and file 
> > attributes are all indexed data withing the SQL database. The 
> > operating system will have SQL built in.
> Maybe it is better done by fuse? So, did you consider contributing to 
> RelFS or something like it? Try FUSE.sf.net to find out the present 
> fs-in-usermode projects.

That certianly looks like a good tool to start experimenting with.

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